wiredmikey writes: VeriSign today announced that ICANN renewed the company's contract to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the.net registry for another six years.

The company has held management of the.com/.net infrastructure for over 12 years. VeriSign also manages two of the world's 13 Internet root servers, a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net, considered national IT assets by the U.S. Federal government.